Many of you may not know that we have an ongoing member feedback survey where we ask for your thoughts and impressions of using easyDNS. We try to make it as unobtrusive as possible, and for each respondent we make a $5 donation to a charity of your choosing (World Wildlife Fund, Children’s Wish Fund […]
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smtp.easydns.com and smtp2.easydns.com now rejecting mail from clients with no reverse lookups or bogus reverse lookups
Greetings everyone, Due to a breathtaking number of new compromised PCs hitting our primary and secondary mail hubs, we are now rejecting e-mail from hosts that have no reverse lookup, or a bogus reverse lookup. This means that if the IP address of your mail server does not have a legitimate reverse “PTR” record, we […]
Updated: Members site maintenance: February the 7th 2009
UPDATE: We are pushing this update to February the 7th 2009, at 10:00pm EST Original notice below; Greetings, On Saturday January the 31st, 2009, at 10:00pm EST, the EasyDNS admin team will be doing maintenance on our retail members interface. This maintenance will impact members site access and dynamic DNS requests. DNS queries, mail flow, […]
Wango Tango!!! TedNugent.com – are you kidding me?
One of the things I love about this business is finding out some of the ultra-cool websites who use us for DNS. The first couple years of this business I think I had every domain name on the system memorized, not so much now. But I found out today that TedNugent.com uses easyDNS nameservers ROCK […]
Relay of email to AT&T mailservers…
We are aware of an issue with our primary mailservers relaying email forwarded emails to destination email addresses within the AT&T network due to a block on their end. Affected destination email address domains are: @bellsouth.net @sbcglobal.net @pacbell.net @att.net @ameritech.net @swbell.net @prodigy.net @snet.net Our sysAdmins have routed email to non-affected mailservers which will allow email […]
Why we do not offer Whois masking at easyDNS
Update: we have since flip-flopped on this. Please See: The Official easyDNS Flip-Flop on Whois Privacy. We get asked this a alot: Why do you guys not offer whois masking or whois contact privacy? The brief background on this is: whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible […]